Bicycle-bell.



Y Patented June 5, I900.

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(Application filed Jan. 12, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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EDIVIN SHERIDAN BOOTH, OF IVATERVILLE, MAINE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,177, dated June 5, 1900.

Application filed January 12, 1900. Serial No. 1,240. No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN SHERIDAN BOOTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterville, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Bells, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bells designed to be attached to bicycles or similar vehicles to be operated by the rider to give an alarm to approaching pedestrians; and one object of the same is to provide a simple and efficient device of this character which may be oper-.'

ated continuously by a slight movement of the foot of the rider whenever it is required to throw it into operation and which may be readily applied or attached to cycles of different form or construction.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which shall be simple in construction and of comparatively few parts, which will not readily become disarranged or inoperative, and which may be produced at a slight cost of manufacture.

-I attain these objects by means of the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,- and in which Figure 1 is a side view of myinvention applied to the fragment of a seat-post tube of a bicycle of ordinary construction and showing a sprocket-wheel in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my invention.

Like numerals of reference designate like parts wherever they occur in the diiferent Views.

In said drawings the numeral 1 designates the seat-post tube of a bicycle, and my bell is secured to said tube by means of a clamp 2, consisting of the two parts 3 4, the part at provided with a hook 5, engaged in a recess in the portion 3 of the clamp. A binding-screw 6 passes through the outwardly-bent ends of the clamp to firmly hold the device in position on the frame tube of the bicycle. Projecting outward from the side of the clamp is a stud 7, and the ham mer-lever surrounds this stud. This hammer-lever 8 consists of a strand of wire, of the proper gage or size, having a hammer 9 secured at one end thereof. This portion of the lever passes between two studs 10, projecting outward from one member of the clamp, and from thence the wire extends to the stud 7, at which point the wire is bent one or more times around the stud to form a bearing for thelever. From this point the lever extends outward and downward, and its terminal end formsaprojecting crank 11, designed to engage the spokes 12 of the sprocket wheel as it is revolved by the rider. The bell 12 consists of an ordinary gong, of suitable size, secured in any convenient manner to the clamp in position to. be struck by the hammer 9. A lever designed to prevent the hammer from continuously striking the bell consists of a length of wire having an enlargement 13 at one end and a projecting arm at the opposite end lying in the path of the hammer-lever to prevent the hammer from striking the bell when said arm 14 is thrown upward against the hammer-lever 8 to hold the hammer away from the bell. To form a bearing for this arm 14 and its lever, the wire is bent several times around the shank of the bell to form a frictional bearin g at this point.

The operation of my device is as follows: Then the rider desires to ring the hell, he raises the enlargement 13 by a slight movement of his foot, thus depressing the arm 14 of the lever and throwing it out of the path of the bell-hammer. The crank 11 beingin the path of the spokes of thesprocket-wheel is continuously vibrated and the bell is'struck by the hammer at each movement of the crank, the studs 10 serving to prevent the hammer from lying in contact with the bell to deaden the sound. When it is desired to stop the bell from ringing,the rider places his foot upon the enlargement 13 and depresses it until the arm 14 is thrown into the pathof the hammer-lever to prevent it from striking the bell.

It will be obvious from the foregoing that my device is of simple construction, of few parts, may be applied to any bicycle, and is reliable and effieient in use.

I do not desire to have it understood that I am to be restricted to the precise details disclosed, as I may make several changes which properly fall within the spirit and scope of I00 my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- A bicycle-bell adapted to be thrown into l to and out of operation by the foot of the rider, said bell comprising a clamp attached to the seat-post tube of the wheel, a bell secured to said clamp, a hammer pivoted to the clamp 5 and having a crank in the path of the I sprocket-spokes, a lever pivoted to the bell- I shank and having an enlargement at one end and an arm projecting into the path of the I hammer-lever, said enlargement adapted to I 10 be raised and depressed to throw the bell into 1 and out of operation, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Wit- DGSSGS EDWIN SHERIDAN BOOTH.

Witnesses:

LILLIAN M. SMALL, HENRY L. CARSON. 

